The logic behind tax freedom day is that if you pay high taxes your are worse off.

The logic is, of course, unproven. The countries with the highest taxes and therefore the latest "tax freedom days" are in Scandinavia. They also have the best education systems, lowest rates of infant mortality, low crime rates, sound economies and so on. In fact, on most measures of what matters most to most people they score very well.

The US on the other hand has 20% of children with no access to healthcare, massive income disparities which create perceived lack of wellbeing (which is much more important in terms of human happiness than actual differences in wellbeing) and so on.

I'm not actually arguing either system is right or wrong. But to suggest that tax is simply a burden and that no benefit is derived from it is an obvious, and utter nonsense.